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Meet Kendall Jones. She's a 19-year-old Texas cheerleader who loves hunting. According to her Facebook, she's slated to get her own show on the Sportsman Channel next year, because a combo like that sounds like a recipe for success. She also hunts endangered animals [via The Daily Mail].

What Jones is doing is technically legal, and not all the big game she's hunting is necessarily protected or endangered. In instances of population control or — like in the case of her hippo hunt — when it's an animal that is threatening local farmers' crops, these animals are all fair game to hunters. Still, she writes on her Facebook page that "the first animal I ever shot was a White Rhino with a .416 Remington!!" and the selfies she takes, smiling over the bodies of dead animals, aren't exactly endearing.

The Internet has not reacted kindly. Jones has received a lot of death threats on Twitter (she's since deleted her account), and a Change.org petition to stop her from hunting has nearly reached 10,000 signatures. Some people are taking issue with her hunting animals at all; others have problems with her glorifying this kind of hunting, even if it is in the name of animal control.

I don't mind hunting deer & other small game but WTF why would you hunt an elephant, cheetah, rhino, etc, just for publicity #KendallJones

There's also a petition online to have her Facebook page taken down, claiming it's offensive material. The page featured pictures of her posing with her kills and smiling, with captions like, "First dangerous 7 game down!! One of the prettiest animals in all of the land!"